Illinois Supreme Court Grants Leave to Appeal Controversial Condominium Decision
May a condominium owner refuse to pay monthly and/or special assessments, in whole or in part, on the grounds that the condominium board had failed to maintain and repair the common elements of the...
View ArticleWhere Is a Retail Seller Liable For Occupation Taxes?
At least three different government entities are allowed by Illinois law to impose the local portion of the state's sales taxes: home rule counties; home rule municipalities; and regional transit...
View ArticleEnforcing Contractual Time Bars on Architect Liability
In Gillespie Community Unit School District No. 7 v. Wight & Co., the fourth and final new civil case added to its docket at the close of the January term, the Illinois Supreme Court will address...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Will File Two Civil Opinions Friday Morning
This afternoon, the Illinois Supreme Court announced that it expects to file opinions in two civil cases at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, February 22. They are......By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleIskanian v. CLE Transportation: Will California Fall In Line On Class-Wide...
On September 19, 2012, the California Supreme Court granted the plaintiff’s petition for review of the Second District Court of Appeal’s decision in Iskanian v. CLE Transportation Los Angeles, LLC, 206...
View ArticleA Busy Day of Civil Arguments at the Illinois Supreme Court
Tomorrow will be a busy day for the Illinois Supreme Court's civil docket, with five cases being argued, beginning at 9:00 a.m. They are......By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Will File Two New Civil Opinions on Thursday Morning
This afternoon, the Illinois Supreme Court announced that it will file two opinions in civil cases on 9:00 a.m. on Thursday morning. The upcoming opinions are......By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleSupreme Court Unanimously Holds Plaintiffs Can't Stipulate Around CAFA
On Tuesday morning, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decisively closed a loophole in the Class Action Fairness Act, holding in Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles that a purported stipulation by the...
View ArticleArgument Report: Illinois Supreme Court Considers Whether Cook County...
On Tuesday morning, the Illinois Supreme Court gave little concrete indication of how it will likely rule during oral argument on Crittenden v. Cook County Commission on Human Rights. Counsel for the...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Debates the Insurability of TCPA Federal Junk Fax...
Earlier this month, on the final day of arguments for the March term, the Illinois Supreme Court heard oral argument in Standard Mutual Insurance Co. v. Lay. Lay presents the question of whether the...
View ArticleComcast Corp. v. Behrend: Even More Than Meets the Eye?
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court handed down its opinion in another of this term’s major class action cases. Following on the heels of Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles, where the...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to File Opinion in Boyar on Thursday Morning
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced that on Thursday morning, it will file its opinion in In re Estate of Boyar. Boyar presents the issue of whether the doctrine of election - which teaches that a...
View ArticleA Tale of Three Cases: California's Split Over Concepcion Continues
In state and Federal courts throughout the country, the defense and plaintiffs’ bars are debating the application of the United States Supreme Court’s landmark 2011 decision in AT&T Mobility v....
View ArticleIs an Emergency Room Physician Protected From Liability By the Good Samaritan...
In the final days of the March term, the Illinois Supreme Court granted review in Home Star Bank & Financial Services v. Emergency Care & Health Organization, Ltd., which poses the question of...
View ArticleHow Is an Appeal from the Certification of a Pollution Control Facility Brought?
In the final days of the March term of the Illinois Supreme Court, the Court allowed a petition for leave to appeal in The Board of Education of Roxana Community Unit School District No. 1. v. The...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Declines to Decide the Question Presented in Boyar
The Illinois Supreme Court granted leave to appeal in In re Estate of Boyar to decide whether the doctrine of election applies to trusts, and, if it does, to delineate any exceptions to the doctrine....
View ArticleHow Late Can a Default on a Foreclosure Suit Be Vacated?
In the closing days of the March term, the Illinois Supreme Court allowed a petition for leave to appeal in Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. McCluskey, a decision from the Second District reversing an order...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Grants Review in Six New Civil Cases
This morning, the Illinois Supreme Court announced that it has allowed petitions for leave to appeal in six new civil cases. They are......By: Kirk Jenkins
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Adopts Rule 502: Spoiler Alert for Center Partners?
Today, the Illinois Supreme Court adopted Rule 502 of the Illinois Rules of Evidence, governing the circumstances in which disclosure of protected materials in a legal proceeding, or before a state or...
View ArticlePlaintiffs Still Can't Come to a Nuisance in Illinois
In Toftoy v. Rosenwinkel, the 2nd District of the Illinois Appellate Court held that Illinois' "Right to Farm Act," 740 ILCS 70/1, didn't bar the plaintiff's nuisance suit against the defendants and...
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